Isn’t the vast majority of “cyber crime” just normal white collar crime (eg fraud) done over the internet?
Do people really think it’s exciting?
Do people really think it’s exciting?
The reality of course is much more mundane and the majority of cybercrime is lots of grunt work and a major dose of luck, there is no “silver bullet” skill or hack that will allow you to breach into any system and do anything, it all depends on how lucky you get with unpatched hosts or users being stupid. For every high-profile hack being reported there are hundreds of thousands more “hackers“ banging their heads against the wall not being able to make any progress beyond basic spamming.
"Digital Marketing is the hot new thing. It allows people to buy and sell through the internet". Have you been asleep for last twenty years?
Jesting aside, I think these terms are added to differentiate from things occurring in other spaces or channels. Fraud exists, sure, but it is varied. Email fraud might share some patterns with mail fraud, but I suppose there are differences dictated by the vectors being different, even for cases like email/mail where one word signifies the other nowadays.
First, that most jobs in cybercrime involve selling services to end users and whenever you sell services you not only have to provide customer support which sucks but your customers will have reliability and usability expectations which become annoying to fulfill when you have to maintain your infrastructure in a clandestine way.
Second, most of the positions in criminal orgs involve low skill bitch work because if you had the skills to do the real programming / security / ops work required to do more creative cybercrime then you could easily go get a legitimate job with great pay or go do your own thing.